The Inquirer • June 28 2008
By Fran Devine
How do you celebrate your 60th
birthday? It’s a milestone, isn’t
it? Time to reflect on your working life and on what the shape
of your life will be as you ease
towards retirement.
I’d been
thinking of having a...
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The Inquirer • June 28 2008
By Fran Devine
How do you celebrate your 60th
birthday? It’s a milestone, isn’t
it? Time to reflect on your working life and on what the shape
of your life will be as you ease
towards retirement.
I’d been
thinking of having a party, or
going on a weekend break with
my family.
But at the urging of a
friend in Pennsylvania who had
been down to the Gulf Coast,
I decided to spend a fortnight
working in New Orleans as a
volunteer, accompanied by another, younger English friend
in search of adventure.
My American friend is an active Unitarian, so she’d made our arrangements through the Unitarian
Universalist Association of Congregations and the Unitarian
Universalist Service Committee.
The UUSC (www.
uusc.
org)
is a human rights organisation that works in practical ways to
respond to humanitarian crises and injustices throughout the
world and within the USA.
Soon after Hurricane Katrina hit in
2005, the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge, Louisiana set up
its
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